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In this activity you are to examine earthquake data around your earth structure.

USE GOOGLE EARTH and examine all earthquakes in your earth location during 2011


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Load KMZ Earth Locations.kmz

Load KMZ 2012 Earthquakes

Make sure these are the only 2 that are ticked .


Fly to your earth structure and examine the pattern you see in the earthquakes nearby.

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Answer the following questions about earthquakes near your earth structure while looking at the GOOGLE MAP.

What pattern or TREND do you see in the earthquake data ?

Are they happening on one side of the earth structure?

Are the earthquakes in a straight line? Are the earthquakes scattered?

Are there lots of them or are there very few?

How deep are the earthquakes? Do they get deeper as you get close to the edge of the plate ?


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Screen Shot


Take a screen shot to show the pattern of earthquakes near your Earth Structure. SAVE in your Assignment folder on your H drive .


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If you have time you could also load all the earthquakes from 2010 and 2011

2010 Earthquakes

2011 Earthquakes


Untick the box for 2012 so that you only view 2010 or 2011 data.

Is there much difference in the pattern for previous years for your earth structure ?